Tony Gerber

Tony Gerber (Producer and Director) is the co-founder (with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage) of Market Road Films, an independent production company whose mission is to bring innovative storytelling to unusual and otherwise untold stories.  Gerber is the director, producer and cinematographer (with Jesse Moss) of the award-winning and critically acclaimed film Full Battle Rattle about life inside the US Army’s Iraq simulation in the California desert. Full Battle Rattle had its world premiere at the 2008 Berlinale and went on to win the Special Jury Prize at its US premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. The film was broadcast on the National Geographic Channel (where it was nominated for an Emmy) and has played in festivals and on screens around the world. In addition to independent films and television commissions, Gerber collaborates with cutting edge visual artists Allora and Calzadilla, Ann Sofi Siden and Matthew Barney. Gerber is a two-time Emmy recipient and has filmed, directed and written over half-a-dozen documentaries for the National Geographic Channel, filmed in some of the most remote regions of the world.  He most recently directed and produced the 2-hour special Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron and The Snow Leopard of Afghanistan shot entirely on location for National Geographic Channel. He is the co-director of a new film about Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the alleged Merchant of Death and the producer of war photographer Rachel Anderson’s debut First to Fall, a Gucci/Tribeca grant recipient.

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